Privacy Policy

Privacy PolicyCompareEquityRelease.com has pages within this website that are intended for use by UK residents and businesses only and refer to UK products.

This Privacy Policy explains what steps CompareEquityRelease.com takes in ensuring the information kept about you is safe, secure and confidential.

The information we collectCompareEquityRelease.com may collect personal information about you which you give to us when you use our Services, for example, in order to obtain a quote for an equity release plan or life insurance. The provision of the Services to you may also require us to store details of your transactions, together with details of your financial information. We will periodically review your personal information to ensure that we do not keep it for longer than is necessary.

Purposes for which CompareEquityRelease.com may use information about you

CompareEquityRelease.com may use your personal information for the following purposes:

to enable you to access and use the Services; and/or

to personalise aspects of our overall service to you; and/or

to communicate with you; and/or

to process a transaction between you and a third party.

Passing on information about youPlease be aware that as soon as you use CompareEquityRelease.com's Services, you will be regarded as having given your consent to us disclosing your personal information to all the following parties:

third party providers whose products or services are listed on the results pages of the channels on our website, for the purposes of obtaining an online quotation for you or comparing different products and services as requested by you;

The Financial Services Authority and/or other regulatory/governing bodies for the purposes of compliance monitoring;

other third parties either where necessary for those third parties to provide additional products or services requested by you or with your prior consent.

Informing you of CompareEquityRelease.com's offers and services which may be of interestCompareEquityRelease.com would like to keep you updated by phone, e-mail or text of other products and services which we feel you may benefit from. For example, we may e-mail you letting you know how you could save money by switching product and services. Wherever we capture your data you will be asked to confirm your acceptance of us using your data for these purposes. Unless you untick the box to state otherwise, you consent to us disclosing your personal information to the following parties:

our trusted business partners, whose products and services that may save you money.

You can ask us to stop passing your information to third parties for marketing purposes at any time, which we will do. Such a request may result in CompareEquityRelease.com ceasing to offer the Services to you.

CompareEquityRelease.com may disclose information about you in connection with legal proceedings or potential legal proceedings or if otherwise permitted to do so by law.

Improving our Service to youIn order to ensure the Services CompareEquityRelease.com provide you continue to meet your needs we may ask you for feedback on your experience of using the site. Where we do, such data will only be used as part of our programme of continuous improvement and will not be published on the site.

When using any of our comparison sites, we may also use the data submitted by you to perform user analysis with a specialist third party, to ensure we continue to provide you with the best possible service.

Electronic CommunicationsWhen you agree to receive any electronic communications from us, you also agree to receive additional communications on products and services which we believe you may be interested in. Any electronic communications we send you will include clear and concise instructions to follow should you wish to unsubscribe at any time.

Third party providers and data privacyIf you decide to enter into a contract with a third party provider through a channel on our website, the information you have provided to us together with any further information requested by, and supplied by you to, the third party provider will be held by the provider for the purposes set out in that provider's privacy policy. Therefore, you are strongly advised to read your chosen provider's privacy policy and satisfy yourself as to the purposes for which the provider will use your personal information before entering into the contract. We have no responsibility for the uses to which a provider puts your personal information once you have contracted with that provider.

SecurityKeeping information about you secure is very important to us. However, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure. As a result, whilst CompareEquityRelease.com strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information which you send to us, and you do so at your own risk.

CookiesA cookie is a very small text file placed on your computer by a web browser, which has been sent by a web server. It is essentially an "identification card" relating to you. The main purpose of our cookies is to identify you when you visit our website. Each time your browser requests a web page from our server, the browser sends the information in the text file back to the server and lets the server know that you have returned to that web page. We use cookies to provide you with a better service tailored to suit you. We will store your cookies for a maximum of three months.Cookies help you to save time. For example, if you register for our Services, a cookie helps us to remember who you are and what your preferences are. Next time you return, we can fill in any questions that you have already answered. The more you tell us about yourself, the more we can help to find information or products you want.If you do not accept incoming cookies then the performance of our website on your system will not be to full standard or our website may not serve at all.

Transferring your information abroadInformation supplied by you to us will only be kept within the UK

Your RightsYou have certain rights under the Data Protection Act 1998. For example, CompareEquityRelease.com will always let you have a copy of all personal information we have about you should you request it. We may charge you a fee for a copy of such information.

ContactIf you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us by email to
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or by post to Coburg House, 69-71, Market St, Atherton, Manchester, Lancashire M46 0DA.